ABSTRACT
The commonly recorded narrative in works on Oneness Pentecostal history is largely based on the recollections of Frank Ewart in his 1947 work The Phenomenon of Pentecost, the first attempt to chronicle the early days of the Oneness movement. While many of the early ministers were American, Canadian, Australian, or of European ancestry, Urshan holds a unique positionality as an Eastern voice in the early Pentecostal Movement. The border between the United States and Mexico was not fenced in the early days of the movement, and even through the 1940s was only loosely monitored, although the Great Depression had been marked by deportations of Mexican immigrants and their children, many of whom held United States citizenship. As with the southern border, the northern border between the United States and Canada was also traversed fairly freely by early Pentecostals. Ethiopia is a particular stronghold for the movement.
